YMMV / Kruggsmash

• Alas, Poor Scrappy: Once Splatterface ended, even some who disliked the beetles felt bad for the Sole Survivor of the group. He won, but all his brothers had died in the process.
• Awesome Art: What really sets Krugg apart from other LP'ers of Dwarf Fortress is the amount of time he spends visualizing the insanity of the game's world in his distinctive, crayon-colored style.
  • The intros (links shown in the Awesome Music section) also count.
• Awesome Moments: He regularly pulls these off, such as building a fortress in an ocean, surviving for years on a biome that resurrects everything in it and managing to survive a pack of wolves, dozens of yetis, a group of bogeymen and even killing a giantess while playing as a kobold adventurer.
  • In the 2nd season of Splatterface, the Relic VS Song bout deserves a special mention: The terrain chosen is the forest, a low-ceiling environement that massively disavantages Song, who relies on his wings for mobility, especially important against Relic. However, Song decides not to charge forward and instead lets Relic come. Once it gets close enough, Song ambushes it and instantly bisects it! It was the first bout where a counter wasn't even needed after, because Song was entirely unscathed. The crowd immediately went wild in and out of universe.
• Awesome Music: All the intro music for his videos, including:
  • His Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead intro
  • His Short Forts intro
  • His Steelclutches intro
  • His Honeystoker intro
  • His Monsterkiller intro
• Crosses the Line Twice: The "Fun with minecarts" episode, where Krugg tries out minecarts for the first time, is full of this.
  • 11 minutes in, Krugg builds a small oval track, and the unfortunate dwarf that tests it gets stuck in an endless loop moving at the speed of 2 full laps every second - before it's stopped, the cart splatters 2 other dwarves into the nearest wall^note One of which was a baby. All of this is topped off by Krugg adding in screaming sounds for the unfortunate dwarf stuck in the murderous cart. Even he acknowledges it shouldn't be funny but is clearly amused by the situation.
  • Naturally, he later weaponizes this system, and repels a goblin siege with endlessly looping minecarts. It's effective at first, but then the carts get slower and slower, eventually jamming completely because of all the goblin corpses.
• Designated Hero: The Chamberpoint fortress, both in-universe and out of it. Initially formed to combat the Ambiguously Evil necromantic Evil Overlord ways of Scorchfountain and liberate the peoples subjugated by it, it quickly ended up becoming just as bad, if not worse, than the opposition. Whereas Scorchfountain only used necromancy to bring back its citizens as the undead if they died in combat or an accident, Chamberpoint performed mass executions on its own perfectly healthy citizenry in order to raise them as undead Super Soldiers. Krugg picked up on this sentiment and worked it into the storyline, eventually having a Defector from Decadence give the fortress leader a "What the Hell, Hero?" Speech before killing him.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: From the Monsterkiller series, Rumsit Amsirtob, aka "the Weevil", a forgotten beast Kruggsmash captures mid-series, but never actually manages to use. Unlike most forgotten beasts that appear in the series, the Weevil is drawn in a somewhat Ugly Cute way, instead of the Nightmare Fuel they tend to be. It occasionally appears post-capture, bored in its cage, and even gets its segment at the very end of the epilogue of the series.
• Heart Warming Moments: The very last shot of the Splatterface series shows Shrieking Sounds sitting down to eat beetles with her family. Especially sweet after the announcer said that she would be leaving the arena alive but disgraced.
  • Lord Whitefur saving Bunion from drowning and sparing their life in the second round of Splatterface II, Whitefur being unwilling to take Bunion, a new parent, away from their children. Even the announcer admits that he's happy to see Bunion go home alive and well with their children.
  • The ending of Splatterface II. After an evenly matched duel, Song collapses from overexertion, but the Battle Beetle opts to not finish him off, giving him a chance to find happiness in life beyond a warrior's death. The final shot is of the survivors spending time together outside. Shrieking Sounds and her relative are enjoying themselves, Ladlor waters the trees by the Whitefurs' graves, Bunion watches their children run about, and finally, BB and some of Bunion's kids listen to Song recount some tales.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • Oh look! A way to die! ^Explanation  From a drawing of a dwarf in the Fun with Minecarts video, as he gleefully advances into his splattery minecart death.
• Tear Jerker: The backstory of Moldath the Necromancer from Scorchfountain. He was a religious leader on some Dwarven Hillocks, and had a wife and a year-old child. One day, he left his family behind and began seeking immortality - which he found. However, during his three-year absence, a roc attacked his hometown, and his family was among the casualities. According to this visualization^note about 5:40 into the video, he returned to his family just after the massacre. All of this is revealed in a heartbreaking flashback as a roc descends on the fortress.
  • One of the final shots of the Splatterface series depicts the last Battle Beetle, sitting down in front of the statues of his fallen comrades.
  • The end result of the semifinal bout of Splatterface II. With Lord Whitefur and Toralnil both dead, Song the swan man goes on to face perhaps his only remaining friend, the Battle Beetle.